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21. Ceryx decorata. (Plate I. fig. 11.) 



Synfomh decorata, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 89 (18()2) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 95. 

 Syntomis florina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 350 (1876); Kirby, 

 ' Cat. Het. p. 9(3. 



$ . Black-brown ; head, thorax, and patagia yellow ; thorax with 

 yellow patches ; legs marked with yellow, 1st joint of tarsi white ; 

 abdomen with yellow bands on each segment. Fore wing with the 

 basal area yellow, the costa and veins crossing it brown ; a small 

 hyaline speck below base of cell ; a large hyaline patch in end of cell 

 and oblique yellow-edged patch below vein 2 ; an elongate yellow spot 

 above vein 6, with small spot above 7 ; a small hyaline spot above 

 vein 2 and two spots between veins 8 and 5. Hind wing with 

 yellow patch below the cell and hyaline spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. BoKNEO, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 $ , type Jlorina. Exp. 

 28 millim, 



22. Ceryx flavibasis, n. sp. (Plate I. tig. 12.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; antennce white at tips ; frons, 

 tegulae, patches on patagia, meso- and metathorax, and coxae yellow ; 

 tarsi with the 1st joint white ; abdomen with eight yellow bands in 

 male, seven in female. Fore wing with the base yellow and a 

 slight yellow streak below costa ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in 

 cell ; an elongate patch below the cell extending nearly to termen, 

 a spot above base of vein 2, elongate spots above veins 3, 4, 6, 

 and 7. Hind wing with yellow patch below base of cell and 

 hyaline spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. Perak (Hartert), 1 2 type; Sumatra, 1 cJ iii Coll. Staud- 

 inger. Exp. 26 millim, 



23. Ceryx cherra. (Plate I. fig. 13.) 



Syntomis cherra, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 12 (1879) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. 



p. 220; Ivirby, Cat. Het. p. 97. 

 Syntomoides quisqualis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (3) xiv. p. 441 (1894) ; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. iv. p. 465. 



Black ; frons yellowish white ; antennae white at extremity ; meso- 

 and metathorax with orange patches ; abdomen with seven deep 

 orange bands in male, six in female ; the extremity orange. Fore 

 wing with a small orange mark at base ; a large elongate hyaline 

 patch below the cell, sometimes divided by a black bar ; a wedge- 

 shaped hyaline patch in cell, an elongate spot below vein 7, and 

 two spots in the interspaces between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing 

 with large hyaline patch below the cell, extending between veins 2 

 and 5 and just into the cell, leaving the costal area and a marginal 

 band tapering to tornus black. 



Hah. Assam, Khiisi Hills. The types of qulsqualu, d $ and var. ; 

 type t in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 3U millim. 



